For a group of paleontologists in Brazil, luck and intuition during a 2013 research expedition led to the discovery of a new species — from 120 million years ago. More than a decade ago, a research ...

Madupe and her team have been working to recover traces of proteins from hominin fossils in South Africa's Cradle of Humankind, where at least six hominin species lived, including A. africanus (3. ...

The name underscores the remarkable discovery of these fossils as a pair, a rarity in paleontology. The fossils were unearthed in 2021 at the Lower Cretaceous Miaogou Formation in Alxa Left Banner, ...

Now, an intriguing new study on fossils suggests we might be looking in the wrong places for their earliest ancestors. While we’ve found countless dinosaur fossils in places like Argentina and ...

Every year the world-renowned Tucson Gem, Mineral & Fossil Showcase is like a time portal, a trip around the world, and a treasure hunt all rolled into one. Every winter, more than 65,000 guests from ...

Twenty-month-old Harrison Cummingham, of Jennings, digs for dinosaur fossils in the sandbox that was part of the I Heart Cookies Co. animatronic dinosaur display. The cookie company is traveling ...

Fossil of Protorosaurus speneri. Image by suvuk79 - Own work, Copyrighted free use, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=86190644, via Wikimedia Commons ...

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Peter Bennicke, a local fossil hunter, discovered the blob at the Cliffs of Stevns, a UNESCO-listed geological site on the Danish island of Zealand made up of about 9 miles of fossil-rich coastal ...

And then the vomit was lost to the mists of time. Until last November, when an amateur fossil hunter, Peter Bennicke, split a piece of chalk and discovered it. For decorum’s sake, we had now ...

The time period is full of fossil hominins that morphologically are "a bit of a mess", he added. Some look distinct, but some have Neanderthal features, and still others have Homo sapiens features, ...

A local amateur fossil hunter made the find on the Cliffs of Stevns, a UNESCO-listed site south of Copenhagen. While out on a walk, Peter Bennicke found some unusual fragments, which turned out to ...